@bonej.org has been supporting the bone research community for over 15 years. Ever since the early days of the project, there have been lots of other uses. Check out this paper that used BoneJ for measuring basalt rock formation on the Moon 🌕, from the Chang'e-5 mission! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Intersection of the food tube with the air tube at the larynx is a nasty evolutionary hangover, with life-threatening consequences. Why not two separate tubes for two different functions, eating and breathing? Check out this paper on how toothed whales have solved it.

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

"the design of Facebook's and Instagram's online interfaces, which may exploit the vulnerabilities and inexperience of minors, leading to addictive behaviour and reinforcing the so-called ‘rabbit hole' effects"

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

Committee. Unnecessary duplication, letters turning up just to be seen to be doing something.

If for a scientist, "writing is thinking" (which I agree with, having done quite a bit of it), is an LLM that synthesises sophisticated texts also thinking (as their GUIs have been programmed to make us believe)?

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity- Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award recognizes individuals advancing open source imaging software or hardware by making tools freely accessible, modifiable, and impactful. Nominate or apply by May 1, 2026! buff.ly/5DYr7UO

La France a dit "l'état, sur Linux". www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

🚨🔬🚨🔬🚨 We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open! 🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

1-year MRes projects at the RVC are open for application! I've got 2; 1 on combining experimental data with musculoskeletal simulations to understand how broiler chickens walk while growing, & 1 #DAWNDINOS choice of fossil critters to simulate: www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Good one. Figured out long ago that chasing glam rags is a fool's errand. Our job is to discover truth and disseminate it. Everything else is a wasteful distraction. *dissemination has been practically free for the last 30 years thanks to the Internet.

Celeste is in orbit!🚀 ESA’s first two #Celeste demo satellites have successfully launched on RocketLab’s Electron from New Zealand, starting tests of a complementary #LEO layer for #Galileo to boost resilience and unlock new PNT services. www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...

Great to see X-ray microtomography on @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues. ⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜 Join us! Apply!!! 🎉 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/AI-Exper...

We want to organize a learnathon to teach plugin development within #FIJI #scijava #imglib2 #BigDataViewer and other Big* parts of the Java ecosystem. Please spread the word, and if you know someone who can be interested, forward them the link below forum.image.sc/t/learnathon...

Chuck Norris, le mythique acteur de « Walker, Texas Ranger », est mort 

As a fan of both libraries and staircases this is a real kick. Are you open to contributions to #staircasesinlibraries from other libraries, @stabihh.bsky.social ?

Please share far & wide - the bestest, most heart warming thing you’ll see all day. Kakapo-Cam - watch one of the fattest, greenest, least able to fly, most endangered parrots in the world care for her young. Thnx @digs.bsky.social #kakapo #wildlife 🧪🧪 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

We have three neuroscience research software engineering jobs available at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, two joint with the Advanced Microscopy Facility. All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved

Our London-based imaging facility is currently looking for a research software engineer to help develop analysis pipelines for spatial omics. Job advert accessible via our homepage: swcmicroscopy.com Our Neuroinformatics facility also hiring for related roles: neuroinformatics.dev

😂 Avoid Springer Nature - until they adopt fair business practices like paying for all labour they need for their (apparently) premium service. DYK only two people own half of the company?

How can we make sure community software projects that are delivering value are worth looking after from the developers' perspective? I've always found that being paid is highly motivating. Now there is a fair way for users to help developers keep going: @beancounter.ch

Taking (paid) requests to make enhancements to @bonej.org. What would make it better for you? Contact me for a quote.

📢 Release alert! BoneJ ulna-r10 brings much anticipated ROI support to Area/Volume Fraction. TV (TA) = pixel volume (area) in the ROI BV (BA) = foreground pixel volume (area) in the ROI Thanks to Sandra Shefelbine at Northeastern for commissioning development of this much-requested enhancement.

👀ICYMI: "Open source can be a powerful part of that answer. But if we care about open research, we should care just as much about the human experience of reuse as we do about the licence." #OpenResearch #OpenScience

Lasers cut precisely and without contact – ideal for surgery. But in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers led by Dr. Ferda Canbaz have now reported a breakthrough: They achieved cutting depths of up to 4.5 centimeters using a novel laser beam profile.

So essays - like other ways of testing knowledge and understanding - should not yield to AI slop. But they are vulnerable, because of the nature of the medium. A wise student, however, should see an essay question as an opportunity to explore, and not a chore to complete.

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61... #software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Yes and no. We focus on MDPI-Frontiers because if you drew a random SI you'd have a 70%+ chance of it being from them. But we also highlight that across all SIs at BMC, Springer, Roy Soc there's *similar* amounts of PISS. Delegating trust to guest editors has costs & should be done responsibly.

One of the "exciting" things about GPU development is all the funny quirks that hardware vendors come up with that keep life interesting. Wrt. OpenCL support AMD is the most compliant and predictable; NVIDIA is mostly OK but a bit odd sometimes; Intel lacks useful things for science like FP64.

Swiss Breeding Bird Monitoring dataset is now openly accessible! The team from @vogelwarte.bsky.social made the long-term dataset of the Swiss CBM program (“Monitoring Häufige Brutvögel”, MHB) freely available under CC-BY 4.0 licence. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The banality of evil.

Attending #CellBio2025? Have questions about publishing with Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social or our Fast & Fair peer review initiative? Meet Editor-in-Chief @danielgorelick.bsky.social on Tuesday, 9 December, 12:00 -13:00 pm at booth 1232.

The licence you put on your work needs to sustain your ability to continue it. Otherwise it's self-defeating and you'll be taken advantage of.

Final pdf is out! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Do you have 2D-to-3D image registration challenges? Let me know about them here forum.image.sc/t/toward-bet...

📢 New release! This one makes BoneJ's GPU-accelerated extensions easier to access from Python by using ImageJ2 / scijava-style wrappers. Just let the Fiji updater run and grab a voucher from bonej.org/shop

BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025

Looking forward to catch up with @cbias.bsky.social next week, and reconnect with the old London crew. See you there! tidal.com/playlist/d9d...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

We're pleased to announce that our latest release of new and updated UK Biobank data is now available to approved researchers around the world ✅

Python notebook from a two year old paper: Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library. ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078: Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.

When you think of bats, you probably don’t think of pollination - but bats are crucial pollinators, and the key to creating a certain drink! 🍸 See an (adorable) bat covered in pollen and learn why a world without bats would be a world without tequila in this week’s Surprising Science. 🦇

Philippe Taquet, chasseur de dinosaures et ancien directeur du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, est mort

Remember that survey about how we can sustain napari development? We extended the deadline until the 16th, AoE! Blog post: napari.org/island-dispa... Survey: napari.typeform.com/sustainability If you use napari at all we would be super grateful if you filled it in! 🙏

We’re switching our eight subscription journals to a #SubscribetoOpen model for 2026. Royal Society Publishing Director, Rod Cookson, explains why and how. royalsociety.org/blog/2025/11... #OpenAccess #S2O